Content Conversion and Transformation

Good Intranet Server uses content conversion and transformation procedures to reformat web content. These procedures enable the server to prepare information for optimal display on a wireless handheld.

Content conversion is the process of changing web content into a compact format for delivery to handhelds. Content transformation is the process for reformatting, truncating, and otherwise scaling down large HTML pages to make them suitable for viewing on the small screen of handhelds.

Content Converters

Good Intranet Server includes a set of content converters for mapping text-based web content to a compiled form that can be sent to handhelds. Compiled content is more compact and far more efficient for wireless transmission than text-based content.

There are content converters for the following types of text-based content:

• HTML
• Wireless Markup Language (WML)
• Plain text
• WMLScript (a scripting language for WML)

Content conversion is always enabled, Good Intranet Server automatically detects the content type and compiles the content using the appropriate conversion adapter.

Content Transformation

Content transformation properties are stored in separate application-specific configuration files (not in config.props). Conversion and transformation properties differ for different applications and different URLs. For more information on content transformation properties, see Developing Custom Applications

The following property enables the use of converters:

Property Name	Default	Description
converter.enable	true	If set to true (the default), enables content conversion. Note: The converter must to be enabled at all times.